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Monthly Websense spam briefing
David Heath
Wednesday, 12 August 2009 17:01
Websense summarises the results of its outsourced spam detection services into a short monthly newsletter. This month, they observe the highest-ever proportion to spam to total email (89.3%) with the majority of that spam (88.6%) containing an embedded URL.
Almost-gone are the days of the self-contained 419 (Nigerian) scam email!
Further, the summary observes that 3.5% of spam messages were some kind of phishing attack.
The final observation, discussed in a number of places, is that shortened URLs (from bit.ly etc) are both more prevalent and more likely to be used to obscure nefarious web sites.
It's a jungle out there.
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